Date: 08/08/23 Name: Sourwood Trail at Lake Russel Distance: 5.3 Difficulty: Easy Total Climbing Elevation: 345 Type: Loop Notes: Thanks to Renee Corbett, Ray Lovett and Lynn Steele for this AllTrails GPX file and pictures. Our hikers seemed to have enjoyed a fairly short and easy hike on the familiar Sourwood Trail in the Lake […]
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Date: 08/01/2023 Name: Woody Gap to Dockery Lake Distance: 7.3 Difficulty: Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 1,066 Type: One-Way Notes: Once again, another beautiful warm, 70's summer day to hike in the Blood Mountain Wilderness under high tree cover. Today we hiked northeast on the AT from Woody Gap to the intersection with the Dockery Lake
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Date: 07/25/2023 Name: Coosa Backcountry and Bear Hair Gap Trails Distance: 6.7 Difficulty: Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 1,371 Type: Out and Back with Loop Notes: Another great day for a hike with sunny and warm temperatures, 67 degrees to 77 degrees, but humid conditions that made it seem much hotter. The shady conditions under the
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Date: 07/18/2023 Name: High Shoals Falls and Unicoi Lake Trails Distance: 5.4 Difficulty: Easy Total Climbing Elevation: 768 Type: Out and Back then Loop Notes: Another summer day with sunny skies and temperatures between 75 degrees&85 degrees. We did have high cover over the trails so it wasn't unbearably hot. We visited both the Blue
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Date: 07/11/2023 Name: Lower Whitewater Falls Trail Distance: 4.6 Difficulty: Easy Total Climbing Elevation: 883 Type: Loop Notes: This was a mostly easy hike over a mix of forest&ATV trails and gravel roads. While the initial forest trails were in good condition, the last 0.6 mile down to Lower Whitewater Falls viewing platform, a.k.a. John
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Date: 07/04/2023 Name: Raper Mountain Loop Distance: 5.8 Difficulty: Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 774 Type: Out and Back with Loop Notes: A warm and muggy Independence Day hike on a mixed trail of FS roads, old logging roads, forest trail and ATV trail. The trail is initially a continuous, but generally easy uphill hike, then
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Date: 06/27/2023 Name: Bartram Trail-Warwoman Ford to Dicks Creek Falls Distance: 5.7 Difficulty: Easy Total Climbing Elevation: 751 Type: Out and Back Notes: It was a warm and humid summer morning, but the high tree canopy provided cooling shade along most of the trail. This trail was in excellent condition with only one blowdown that
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Date: 06/13/2023 Name: Chunky Gal Trail from Deep GapUpper Falls Via Panther Creek Trail Distance: 7.1 Difficulty: Moderate to Strenuous Total Climbing Elevation: 1,539 Type: One Way Notes: It was a really beautiful and unusually cool, 52 to 65 degree day for mid-June. We chose to start from Deep Gap to hike the entire trail
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Date: 06/06/2023 Name: Upper Falls Via Panther Creek Trail Distance: 7.8 Difficulty: Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 932 Type: Out and Back Notes: After six years of Forest Service postings on the Panther Creek Trail's hazards from use and weather, we decided to check it out and revisit this trail and waterfall. We were not disappointed.
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Date: 05/30/2023 Name: Stonewall Falls Mountain Bike Trail Loop near Tiger, GA Distance: 4.7 Difficulty: Easy Total Climbing Elevation: 568 Type: Loop Notes: This was an easy, shorter hike on a very nice trail that was comfortable on the feet because of the mostly pine needle surface. While designated a mountain bike trail, there was
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